Ruqaiya Khan: Dior Holiday Golden Nights Collection - Eyeshadow Palette in Golden Snow and Eyeliner in Sparkling Black Review and Swatches

This is my favorite collection for the holidays!! Dior Golden Nights collection is so sparkly - it automatically makes me feel festive and 10x excited for the holidays!! I am so excited to share this so without further ado, lets move on to the review and swatches!

Dior 5-Couleurs Couture Golden Nights Collection Limited Edition Eyeshadow Palette ($75)

This eyeshadow palette comes in two shades - Black Night and Golden Snow. I picked Golden Snow because the shade were more wearable and it seemed like a more coherent color combo than Black Night.

I love neutral eyeshadows and this one is a perfect palette to get my eyes ready for the holidays. I love that gold eyeshadow in the center as it adds a beautiful pop of sparkle and shine to my lids. The glitter is very finely milled in the eyeshadows and looks very sophisticated. I don't like chunky overly glittery eyeshadows (like Charlotte Tilbury's) and I feel that this palette has a good balance of golden and iridescent shimmers that give a beautiful look on eyes. Also there was very less fallout and you can see that on the swatches, which I did on bare arms!! That means without any concealer or primer as a base!! And they are still so pigmented and sparkly!! Absolutely amazed!!

Just out of the packaging, I was slightly disappointed to see that there is no velvet pouch to protect the case from scratches. Eyeshadow palettes last me years so I like to keep them in a velvet pouch that usually accompanies such high end eyeshadows. Its a small thing, maybe a lot of you don't care about it, but it is a tad important for me.

For the first time, I saw a description of how to use the tiny dual ended brushes included on any packaging :D Though the brushes or applicators are tiny and non ergonomic, I tried to apply with them and it did work. Though I would prefer my full size eyeshadow brushes over these any day.

Ingredients - so you can see if there is anything you are allergic to

Size in the palm of my medium size hand

Diorshow 24H* Stylo Waterproof Eyeliner in Sparkling Black ($37)

There are two sparkling eyeshadows in the Golden Nights Limited Edition Collection. I picked the shade Sparkling Black because I knew I will get more wear out of this than the other shade called Satiny Gold.

This is such a beautiful jet black eyeliner with glittery sparkles that dress up my eyes with or without eyeshadows. I can also use it to smudge it out all over my lids for a shimmery black smokey eyes. I absolutely love how longwearing and smudge resistant this eyeliner is.